The county administered a number of general services (e.g., strategic planning, transport, and recreation), while the boroughs handled the main range of services (e.g., education, housing, and most personal and household services).
The ceremonial county of Somerset consists of a non-metropolitan county, administered by Somerset County Council, and two unitary authorities.
The ceremonial county of Somerset consists of a non-metropolitan county, administered by Somerset County Council, which is divided into five districts, and two unitary authorities.
When the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth attained unitary authority status in 1998, Basingstoke became the largest settlement in the county administered by the county council, although it remains the third largest settlement in the ceremonial county.
In New England, however, counties administer little beyond courts of law and legal records, while towns (townships) within the counties perform all other municipal functions.
The city of L.A. has authority over land use, the county is responsible for mental health services, and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority — a joint endeavor between the city and county — administers grants to nonprofits.
In October and November, the newspaper said, county officials administered more than 17,000 flu shots.
Each county is administered by a commissioners' court, which is an administrative rather than a trial body.
To knit all of the agencies and governments together, Los Angeles County formed a "joint-powers authority" (binding together all of the cities and other agencies in America's most populous county) to administer the new Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (known by the acronym LA-RICS), and applied for the largest federal grant ever given for that purpose.
The county also administers the Harbor Gateway Communities Enterprise Zone with the cities of Los Angeles and Huntington Park.
"What would have remained would have been so small that it would not have been an efficient area for the county to administer.
